Cockroach

They were already old when the first dinosaurs were born 240 million years ago, they saw the Andes rise and witnessed several ice ages their penetrating and impassive eyes have contemplated the slow and endless passage of centuries surviving safely all kinds of resources that they have been used to exterminate them, within 350 million years when our time on earth is gone, the descendants of that humble insect that lives and thrives everywhere will possibly be at home in a colony on Mars, in the seasons orbital or around one of Jupiter's moons we are talking of course about his majesty the cockroach, in the NASA AJMS research center located in California experts in the topography of Mars have carefully studied the method of locomotion of cockroaches, because They have verified that its system of legs seems to be the ideal one to travel through the deep cliffs and ravines of the red pla Neta is one of the fastest insects and much more resistant than the ferocious dinosaurs with which it lived centuries ago. It is certain that European cockroaches arrived in the New World as stowaways in Columbus's caravels and they adapt to all kinds of modern transport, since They have even accompanied man on some of the missions to the moon inside mini capsules similar to beer cans, there they endured undaunted, tremendous accelerations, weightlessness, lack of oxygen and food, a cockroach can remain up to six or more months without water or food inside television sets and computers, they totally ignore the intense heat generated by the screen tubes as well as high voltages and for them the wax and paraffin as well as the plastic that covers cables and components are appetizing delicacies, in fact they eat everything , shoe soles, lubricating grease, toothpaste and enjoy painting for her soap and certain cosmetics constitute a delicious dessert and when they get absolutely nothing to eat they gobble up their own skin when shedding it.

For many people, especially women, a cockroach, especially the type that flies, is a cause for panic, not to mention hysteria, largely due to its fetid smell. They are also considered synonymous with dirt, even though, according to experts, it is a very clean that spends hours grooming its most notable appendages are the antennae, since there they have olfactory cells that allow them not only to locate water and food but also to capture sound waves thanks to that faculty they instantly perceive the noise produced by that rolled up newspaper with which some try to kill them by dodging it in time and the same thing happens when trying to crush them with your foot, but even if you manage to imprison them under your shoe, it is possible that you will be saved thanks to the flexible firmness and compressibility of your body that once freed from that weight allows you to slip through any crack and be safe taking into account all the above, it is not surprising the interest with which it is studied at NASA where they do not rule out the creation of a robot with the shape and characteristics of a cockroach with the approximate size of a shoe so that, as already said, they explore the cracks and crevices on the Martian surface if that does not work it is not It is surprising that they use authentic cockroaches that have been properly genetically manipulated and equipped with cybernetic aids or, in other words, robotized super-cockroaches.

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